Simone de Beauvoir: "I tore myself away from the safe comfort..."

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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on...

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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

—Simone de Beauvoir

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

—Simone de Beauvoir

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club

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Beyond the quest for financial security and personal comfort, what, if anything, are we committed to?

—Nathan McCall

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There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

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Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

—Sean Beaudoin in You Killed Wesley Payne

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People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me.

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